The Wheel of Time, the gargantuan 15-book series with thousands of characters, has largely been touted as impossible to adapt.
Written by Robert Jordan, with the final three books finished by Brandon Sanderson after Jordan’s passing, it is a triumph of early modern fantasy that centered women in its worldbuilding.
The first attempted adaptation of this show was an admittedly terrible pilot called Winter Dragon.
It was many years before the wheel started turning again, and finally, Prime Video announced that they would be adapting the book series into a show.
With eight hour-long episodes, the series finally made its premiere in the fall of 2021.
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